Artist&#39;s material holding device



March 21, 1961 M. c. MOORE ARTIST'S MATERIAL HOLDING DEVICE Filed June 19, 1958 S wllmmmum il] e o o o o O u o o O l|| u) ,.nvenlot Mildred Glomff Moore United States Pate ARTISTS MATERIAL HGLDING DEVICE Mildred Claui Moore, Fullerton, Nebr.

Filed June 19, 1958, Ser. No. 743,128

3 Claims. (Cl. 45-129) This invention relates to aids for artists and more particularly to a tray means for painting-easels for holding materials and supplies, such as brushes, tubes of paint, containers of paint thinning liquids, palette knives, wiping cloths, and like.

All artists have easels for holding the canvas during the painting phase. They usually have their painting supplies in a portable box container, and which they usually place in a most inconvenient location at their sides and on the ground. Also, the box container is crowded with supplies and does not therefore permit the handy extended display of the tools and supplies so necessary to the artist.

Therefore, one of the principal objects of my invention is to provide an elongated rack container that permits the segregation and expanded display of the tools and materials used by an artist during the painting phase.

More specifically, the object of this invention is to provide an elongated supply tray that is secured to the standards of an artists easel.

A further object of this invention is to provide a material holding tray for artists use on easels that does not interfere with the artists movements or position during the painting of a picture.

A still further object of this invention is to provide a trough container for holding artists supplies that may be easily and quickly installed on or removed from an easel.

Still further objects oi this invention are to provide a trough container for artists easels that is economical in manufacture, durable in use, and refined in appearance.

These and other objects will be apparent to those skilled in` the art.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangements, and combination, of the various parts of the device, whereby the objects contemplated are attained as hereinafter more fully set forth, specilically pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of my device installed on an easel and in use,

Fig. 2 is an enlarged cross sectional view of my device taken on line 2-2 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 3 is an enlarged cross sectional view of my trough container installed on an easel and is taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 4 is an enlarged top plan View of my device and more fully illustrates its construction, and

Fig. 5 is an enlarged front view of my elongated box container.

In these drawings I have used the numeral to generally designate an ordinary artists easel having the two front post standards 11 and 12 and the back post standard 131. The two standards 11 and 12 extend upwardly and away from the artist and support the usual ledge 14 upon which the canvas or like 15 is placed.

As herebefore noted, my device is that of an elongated open top trough box. It has a back straight side 16, a bottom 17, a front side 18, and ends 19 and 20, respectively, as shown in Fig. l.

The center length area of the front wall 18 is straight and parallel with the back wall 16 as shown in Fig. 4. The two outer end portions of the front wall 18, however, each extends laterally and away from the back 16 at an angle thereto, also shown in Fig. 4. Thus, the bottom 17 is of greater width at its two end portions than it is at its center length portion. By this arrangement, when my device is on an easel, the narrow center area of the device will be below the canvas and directly in front of the artist and will therefore not interfere with his painting. The length of the trough box or tray is such that it extends well beyond the sides of the easel and therefore the enlarged end areas of the device will be to the sides of the artist and out of the way. Ihe trough may have any suitable number of dividers. The numeral 21 designates an adjustable one. The numerals 2-2 and 23 designate two iixed dividers at the start of the enlarged end portions, respectively. These two dividers 22 and 23 divided the device into end compartments 24 and 25 and a center compartment 26.

The numeral 27 designates holes in the: bottom 17 and front 18 of the compartment 25 for receiving and holding paint brushes 28 as shown in Fig. 1. The compartment 2.4 may be used to hold containers 29 for turpentine,` varnish, or like. The compartment 26 may be used to hold tubes of paint 30, or like.

To detachably secure my device to the standards 11 and 12 of an easel, l use thumb nutted screws 31 to extend through the back 16 and the standards respectively, as shown in Fig. 3. To vertically position the tray on the sloping easel standards, I use a downwardly extending wedge 32 between the standards and the rear side of my tray.

With my device installed as shown in Fig. 1, all the artists tools and materials will be strategically located and within easy reach.

Some changes may be made in the construction and arrangement of my artists material holding device Without departing from the real spirit and purpose of my invention, and it is my intention to cover by my claims, any modified forms of structure or use of mechanical equivalents which may be reasonably included within their scope.

I claim: I

1. In combination with an artists easel, an elongated artists material holding trough container secured to said easel; said trough container having brush handle receiving holes in its bottom.

2. In combination with an artists easel, an elongated artists material holding trough container secured to said easel; said trough container having brush handle receiving holes in at least one bottom end and at least one side wall end.

3. In combination with an artists easel, an elongated artists material holding trough container secured to said easel; said trough container having its two end portions iiared and enlarged.

References Cited in the le of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 573,703 Robbins Dec. 22, 1896 893,355 McIntyre July 14, 1908 1,680,056 Mathias Aug. 7, 1928 1,864,972 Bickford June 28, 1932 1,901,583 Conway Mar. 14, 1933 2,117,459 Stanton May 17, 1938 2,485,517 Vaule et al Oct. 18, 1949 2,565,078 Kaplan Aug. 21, 1951 2,746,202 Barker May 22, 1956 FOREIGN PATENTS 9,247 Great Britain 1911 

